The drugs that put you to “sleep” during surgery (general anesthesia) may also hold down your breathing. Intubation lets a machine breathe for you. That’s why your anesthesiologist (the ...

Health officials fear shortage of key drugs used to put patients on oxygen ... While some hospitals have managed to build up some stock of the intubation and sedation medications, others are ...

Public hospitals are critically short on the drugs needed to intubate Covid-19 ... which are used to relax a patient's muscles during intubation, and 61 percent are out of sedatives, a report ...

A group of seven large companies donated 3.4 million doses of intubation drugs — enough for the management of 500 beds for six weeks — to the Health Ministry. A first batch of 2.3 million was ...

Intubation is a standard procedure that involves passing a tube into a person’s airway. Doctors often perform it before surgery or in emergencies to give medication or help a person breathe ...

For example, your doctor may use NG intubation to help treat accidental poisoning or drug overdose. If you’ve swallowed something harmful, they can use an NG tube to remove it from your stomach ...